Hirsch, Samson Raphael
born June 20, 1808, Hamburg
died Dec. 31, 1888, Frankfurt-on-Main, Ger.
German Jewish scholar.
He served as rabbi in Oldenburg, Emden, Nikolsburg, and Frankfurt am Main. In his ...

Hirsch, Samuel
▪ American religious philosopher and rabbi
born June 8, 1815, Thalfang, near Trier, Prussia [Germany]
died May 14, 1889, Chicago, Ill., U.S.
religious ...

Hirschfeld, Al
▪ American caricaturist
byname of Albert Hirschfeld
born June 21, 1903, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
died January 20, 2003, New York, New York
American ...

Hirschfeld, Al(bert)
born June 21, 1903, St. Louis, Mo., U.S.
died Jan. 20, 2003, New York, N.Y.
U.S. caricaturist.
He lived mostly in New York City. He studied art in Europe and traveled in East ...

Hirschfeld, Albert
▪ 2004
“Al”
American caricaturist (b. June 21, 1903, St. Louis, Mo.—d. Jan. 20, 2003, New York, N.Y.), needed only a few strokes of his pen to capture the ...

Hirschi, Travis
▪ American criminologist
born April 15, 1935, Rockville, Utah, U.S.
American criminologist known for his social-control perspective on juvenile delinquency and ...

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
▪ art museum and sculpture garden, Washington, District of Columbia, United States
art museum and sculpture garden located in Washington, D.C. (Washington), part ...

Hirst
(1965– )
an English artist. He became famous in the early 1990s with a series of works consisting of dead animals in glass cases full of formaldehyde (= a special liquid that ...

historical geography
geographic study of a place or region at a specific time or period in the past, or the study of geographic change in a place or region over a period of time. The ...

historical geology
the branch of geology dealing with the history of the earth.
[1920-25]
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historical linguistics
the study of changes in a language or group of languages over a period of time. Also called diachronic linguistics.
[1920-25]
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also called Diachronic Linguistics, ...

historical materialism
(in Marxist theory) the doctrine that all forms of social thought, as art or philosophy, and institutions, as the family or the state, develop as a superstructure founded on an ...

historical method
the process of establishing general facts and principles through attention to chronology and to the evolution or historical course of what is being studied.
[1835-45]
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historical present
Gram.
the present tense used in narrating a past event as if happening at the time of narration.
[1960-65]
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historical school
1. a school of economists that arose in Germany in the 19th century in reaction to the principles of the classical economists, and that maintained that the factors making up an ...

historical school of economics
branch of economic thought, developed chiefly in Germany in the last half of the 19th century, that sought to understand the economic situation of a nation in the ...

historical sociology
the sociological study of the origins and development of societies and of other social phenomena that seeks underlying laws and principles.
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historicallinguistics
historical linguistics
n. (used with a sing. verb)
The study of linguistic change over time in language or in a particular language or language family, sometimes including the ...

hitch
hitch1
—hitcher, n.
/hich/, v.t.
1. to fasten or tie, esp. temporarily, by means of a hook, rope, strap, etc.; tether: Steve hitched the horse to one of the posts.
2. to ...

Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
a successful radio series (1978–80), book (1979) and television series (1981) written by Douglas Adams. They are about Arthur Dent’s comic adventures in space after the earth ...

Hitchcock chair
U.S. Furniture.
a side chair of the early 19th century that has turned legs, a turned crest rail, and one or more slats in the back, and that is painted or stenciled in colors or ...

Hitchcock, Albert Spear
▪ American botanist
born Sept. 4, 1865, Owosso, Mich., U.S.
died Dec. 16, 1935, at sea, en route from Europe to the U.S.
U.S. botanist and specialist on the ...

Hitchcock, H(ugh) Wiley
▪ 2008
American musicologist
born Sept. 28, 1923, Detroit, Mich.
died Dec. 5, 2007, New York, N.Y.
was a founding director (1971–93) of the Institute for ...

Hitchcock, Sir Alfred
born Aug. 13, 1899, London, Eng.
died April 29, 1980, Bel Air, Calif., U.S.
British-born film director.
He worked in the London office of a U.S. film company from 1920 and was ...

hitchingpost
hitch·ing post (hĭchʹĭng)
n.
A post to which an animal, especially a horse, is hitched.
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Hitchings, George Herbert
born April 18, 1905, Hoquiam, Wash., U.S.
died Feb. 27, 1998, Chapel Hill, N.C.
U.S. pharmacologist.
He earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University. Over nearly 40 years, he and ...